Fifteen senior Immigration officers have been sent home over illegal issuance of identity cards to foreigners as investigations into Westgate attack proceed.
The fifteen are senior and mid-level immigration officers who endangered national security with the issuance of the illegal ID cards, according to Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph Ole Lenku.
He said the officers would appear in court to face the law.
Seventeen senior administration officers have been re-deployed to the Department Of Immigration to help streamline and reorganise the department to "avoid a recurrence of security lapses like we have seen in the past," Mr Lenku added.
The government will also carry out a thorough audit of identity cards and passports issued in the country in the last two years, Mr Lenku said while briefing the media on security matters at Harambee House office in Nairobi.
"This exercise will enable us flush out all those who have been issued with illegal passports and other identification documents," he said.
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